Introduction to PeeringDB Ben Ryall ben@peeringdb.com October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Agenda 1. What is PeeringDB 2. How to use it 3. Questions? October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
What is PeeringDB? Mission statement: “ PeeringDB, a nonprofit member-based organization, facilitates the exchange of user maintained interconnection related information, primarily for Peering Coordinators and Internet Exchange, Facility, and Network Operators.” ? • A PeeringDB record makes it easy for people to find you, and helps you to establish peering • If you aren’t registered in PeeringDB, you can register at … https://www.peeringdb.com/register • We use basic verification for new accounts and require current whois information, so please • Update and maintain your whois information • Register from an email address associated with your ASN /company October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
What is PeeringDB? Why should my exchange, network or facility be listed in PeeringDB? • Helps establish new peering more efficiently, with all information easy to find in one place • Maintain all of your contact and connection info • Find other network's peering contact and connection info • Find interconnection facility and IXP info • A PeeringDB record is required by many networks to peer • Can be used for automation to generate router configurations • Initial configuration to setup peering quickly • Update configuration if maximum prefixes change October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Database Record Statistics 2.0 Launch 2016 % 2017 % 2018 % 2016-12-31 2017-12-31 2018-12-31 2016-03-15 Growth Growth Growth Exchanges 630 556 -12 614 10 661 8 Networks 5,881 8,116 38 11,327 40 14,179 25 Facilities 1,957 2,130 9 2,635 24 2,834 8 Organizations 7,490 9,132 22 11,917 30 14,402 21 Users 7,866 11,486 46 15,538 35 19,668 27 • Strong growth each year since PeeringDB 2.0 launch • Lower IXP count in 2016 due to database cleanup • Users number indicates registered users affiliated with an organization • All information except for contact info is available without a login • Not an indication of total PeeringDB users August 2019 MexNOG, Ciudad de México
Governance and Membership • PeeringDB is a United States 501(c)(6) volunteer organization that is 100% funded by sponsorships • Healthy organization, building financial reserves and executing the long term strategic plan • Membership rules • A corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other legal business entity may be a Member of the Corporation • Membership is determined by having both an active PeeringDB.com account and an individual representative or role subscription to the PeeringDB Governance mailing list • 344 addresses subscribed to the Governance mailing list (as of April 16, 2019) • Governance list is at http://lists.peeringdb.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdb-gov • More information available at http://gov.peeringdb.com/ October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
PeeringDB is Open Source Software! • Open source release announcement on 2018-11-10 • Released under the 2-Clause BSD License: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause • Beneficial to the peering and interconnection community by promoting innovation • Allows volunteers to contribute • Makes it easier for third parties to bid on new features specified by the Product Committee • A processes for accepting contributions will be announced • Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/peeringdb/peeringdb October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
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Agenda 1. What is PeeringDB 2. How to use it 3. Questions? October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Register or Request Affiliation to an Existing Organization 2. Confirm Email Address (Click Here if not Confirmed) 1. Go to Your Profile 3. Enter ASN or Organization 4. Click “Affiliate” Here Existing: Organization Autocomplete on Admin Needs to Existing ASNs and Approve Organizations in New: Generates a PeeringDB Support Ticket for Validation and Approval October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Multiple Records Under a Single Organization Facilities are Shown Here LINX has 1 Facility Networks are Shown Here LINX has 2 Exchanges are Shown Here Network LINX has 6 Exchange Records Records October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
One Account Managing Multiple Organizations Account “job” is Affiliated with 4 Organizations October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Organization User Management Approve or Deny Delegate Permissions for Pending Requests Members Admins Have Access to Everything Change User Access Levels Remove Users From the Organization Admin – Administrator Does not Remove the User Account From Member – Delegate PeeringDB Permissions October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Administrative Permission Delegation User “ equinix-uk ” can Manage Several Network Records, but no Exchanges or Facilities Create – New Entries in Record Update – Change Existing Entries in Record Delete – Delete Entries in Record User “rho” can Manage the “ Equinix Connect” Network Record, and Any Exchange or Facility October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Network Record Contact Information Permissions Separate Visibility Preferences for Each Role Private – Organization Only Users – Registered Users Only (Default) Public – Anyone (no Login Required) Roles: Abuse Policy Technical NOC Public Relations Sales October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Adding Your Network to an IXP or Facility 1. Go to your network record and click on “Edit” 2. Start to type in the name of the IXP and select the IXP 3. If the IXP is missing, contact PeeringDB support 4. Add your IP addresses, port speed, and click the “RS Peer” box if you peer with the route server 5. Finally click on “Add Exchange Point” Use the same procedure for • adding a Facility October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Import of Data Provided by IXPs • For Networks • Allow IXPs to maintain your IXP connection information • One setting for all IXPs where you are Networks Click “Allow IXP Update” in Network Record connected • Off by default • For IXPs • IXPs provide participant data (IP addresses, speed, RS peering) • Imported into PeeringDB nightly using IX-F JSON schema • See issue #237 on GitHub for details IXPs Set Export URL in Exchange Record October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Agenda 1. What is PeeringDB 2. How to use it 3. Questions? October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Questions? October 2019 ngNOG 2019, Lagos
Information and Resources • Announce list: http://lists.peeringdb.com/cgi- • Board and Officers: stewards@lists.peeringdb.com bin/mailman/listinfo/pdb-announce • Admins: support@peeringdb.com • Governance list: http://lists.peeringdb.com/cgi- • Presentation requests: bin/mailman/listinfo/pdb-gov outreachcom@lists.peeringdb.com • Technical list: http://lists.peeringdb.com/cgi- • Uptime status: http://status.peeringdb.com/ bin/mailman/listinfo/pdb-tech • Bugs and feature requests: • User Discuss list: https://github.com/peeringdb/peeringdb/ http://lists.peeringdb.com/cgi- • Social media: bin/mailman/listinfo/user-discuss • https://www.facebook.com/peeringdb/ • Docs, presentations, guides, tools: http://docs.peeringdb.com/ • https://www.linkedin.com/company/peeringdb • @PeeringDB August 2019 MexNOG, Ciudad de México
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